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What is Metal Made Flesh?

Metal Made Flesh is a cyberpunk space opera that has been likened to "Bladerunner meets Game of Thrones."
Humanity has been chased to the brink of extinction by an unrelenting foe called the “Veul” and has been forced to take refuge in Tuaoni, a sprawling city on the black market trading hub Equan Yas.

Reduced to extreme poverty, and treated as the lowest of the low by the planet’s inhabitants, humans must do whatever it takes to survive.

The series centres on three humans, the cold, merciless cyborg Izobel Vice who loses more of her humanity with each passing upgrade; the psychopathic assassin Phaeon Nex, and Kalibos, a hideous mutant war machine.

Blood and Oil is a full graphic novel and the second in the Metal Made Flesh series. It continues on from the first book Metal Made Flesh in a graphic novel format. It features three new stories from Creator and artist Simeon Aston, writer Jeremy Biggs and introduces a new artist to the series, Phil Buckenham.

REWARDS

The First Book - "Metal Made Flesh" (Book One)

The Second, new Book - "Blood and Oil" (Book Two)

All physical books come with their respective digital editions

T-shirts

Original Art including Sketches, being featured in the book, a one off painting and digital artwork.

See The Rewards Section below for more details and images of the rewards.

LEVEL UP!

STRETCH GOAL 4 TARGET DESTROYED - ART BOOK

In the last few hours we destroyed the fourth stretch goal. All backers from £35 pledge level and up will get a free art book along with their rewards. In addition, backers with non-digital rewards below £35 pledge level can choose to add on the art book for just £3 (physical) £1 digital.

The Art book will include art from Boo Cook, Ryan Brown, Hal Laren and Simeon Aston.

STRETCH GOAL 3 TARGET DESTROYED - The Full Final Piece of Me!

The stretch goal to include the entire 30 page story The Final Piece of Me by Cy Dethan and Gary Erskine has been reached!
Meeting the next one will mean an additional art book reward. There's still a few days left...

We're also going to be upgrading the print quality, including higher quality inks and paper in the hardback books.

As an interim stretch goal - if we reach 14200, we will include a piece of artwork by Boo Cook in Book Two!

Elephant Men Front Cover by Boo Cook

STRETCH GOAL 2 TARGET DESTROYED - WOW! You Backers are AMAZING!

Today we reached our second big stretch goal - part 1 of a new story, "The Final Piece of Me" by Cy Dethan, art by Gary Erskine, will be added to all BOOK TWOS.

A BIG thanks to all backers! We reached our first stretch goal. Books can now be upgraded to Hardback editions, in addition, all book twos now come with a new illustrated prose story!

BOOK ONE (3rd ed.) hardback Test print

Previous editions of Metal Made Flesh

Stretch goals announced!

A BIG THANK YOU to all backers for making MMF2 fully funded. As a thank you, all physical backers will receive bookmarks and stickers!

REWARDS:

If you would like more than one t-shirt, please add £25 per t-shirt to your order.

Metro design tee

Cyborg Tee

Cotton tee

Digital Wanted Poster

Metal Made Flesh character sketches

ARTWORK FROM THE BOOK:

"Cold Open" from Blood and Oil by Simeon Aston

"Phaeon Nex" from Metal Made Flesh by Simeon Aston

"Infection" from Blood and Oil by Simeon Aston

Blood and Oil Front Cover

"Blood and Oil" excerpt by Phil Buckenham

Blood and Oil Page 2 by Phil Buckenham

Metal Made Flesh by Simeon Aston

STRETCH GOALS

If we exceed our target well be announcing stretch goals including more content, quality upgrades and more. Watch this space!

Risks and challenges

This is the fifth Kickstarter we've run, and since we started we've learned a lot, including having good control over our printing sources, learning how to make tweaks to improve quality, allowing time for any delays in printing, and having backups in case a printer is unable to fulfill on time.

We'll be notifying you at all stages of the Kickstarter how progress is coming along, including an insight into the writing process and showing work in progress pics of the artwork.

We're confident we can deliver on time and to the high quality our backers demand!

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge £82 or more
About $105

Signed copy of BOOK TWO + DIGITAL ART Wanted Picture of yourself, or someone you choose in Hi-res digital format, by Simeon Aston Plus your name featured in the book as a backer, a thank you email and your name on the website.

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Pledge £99 or more
About $126

Signed copy of BOOK ONE + T-SHIRT + DIGITAL ART Wanted Picture of yourself, or someone you choose in Hi-res digital format, by Simeon Aston Plus your name featured in the book as a backer, a thank you email and your name on the website.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge £99 or more
About $126

Signed copy of BOOK TWO + T-SHIRT + DIGITAL ART Wanted Picture of yourself, or someone you choose in Hi-res digital format, by Simeon Aston Plus your name featured in the book as a backer, a thank you email and your name on the website.

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Pledge £105 or more
About $134

Signed copy of BOOK ONE + TWO + T-SHIRT + DIGITAL ART Wanted Picture of yourself, or someone you choose in Hi-res digital format, by Simeon Aston Plus your name featured in the book as a backer, a thank you email and your name on the website.

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Pledge £250 or more
About $319

1 of 4 Specially created oversize (A4) versions of both books, hardback, personally dedicated to you, with special artwork not available elsewhere. A full size, "You on Tuaoni" portrait of you in the book, along with the same image as an A3 poster. A T-SHIRT. Plus your name featured in the book as a backer, a thank you email and your name on the website.

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Pledge £750 or more
About $958

ALL THE BOOKS, plus A ONE OFF PORTRAIT PAINTING of a character from Metal Made Flesh painted by Simeon Aston, to your specifications, the artwork as the cover to an exclusive A4 oversize edition of the Book Two, plus you keep the original painting . Plus your name featured in the book as a backer, a thank you email and your name on the website.